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Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 John McHale	Faster and faster I/O The U.S. military becomes a more network-centric force each year, relying more and more on the quality of the data it receives from sensors on land, at sea, and in the air.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 John McHale	Sharing the stage: 10-Gig Ethernet and Serial RapidIO Military designers see Serial RapidIO and 10 Gigabit Ethernet complementing each other in systems today and the near future. Meanwhile Rocket IO in field-programmable gate arrays is exciting board designers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ben Ames	Engineers Balance Speed and Heat in a Single Board Processors and switched-fabric networks are moving data at faster speeds then ever before, which is leading designers to come up with innovative approaches to channeling information flow, power management, and keeping boards cool.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John McHale	Advanced I/O Means Ethernet Military designers are excited about the I/O capabilities that 10-Gigabit Ethernet promises to bring to the table.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005	Dilemma: Databus or switched fabric? Board designers today face a new performance bottleneck: modern processors are so fast that traditional parallel databuses cannot keep them adequately supplied with data to take advantage of their blazing speed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 John McHale	Steady as she goes The most promising applications for single-board computer designers continue to be legacy defense VME technology, a common choice among military electronics system integrators.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John McHale	VPX, the Heir to VME, Makes its Debut Embedded-system vendors are releasing their products based on the proposed VITA 46 (VPX) standard, while traditional VME standards such as VME 64 continue to prove profitable. Meanwhile, across the standards aisle, the PICMG MicroTCA standard is creating a buzz in military circles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008	VMETRO Introduces Freescale Power Architecture-Based Single-Board Computers The MPE730 is designed for radar, sensor, and signal processing, and the SBC731 is designed for mission and control processing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John McHale	FPGAs Enhance Military Signal-Processing Applications Field-programmable gate arrays have become commonplace on signal-processing boards for defense applications such as radar and sonar. The devices promise even more capability down the road, especially in communications technology such as software-defined radio.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ben Ames	Contractors balance speed and efficiency in digital signal processing Designers of DSP technology for the military are forced to weight the importance of size, weight, speed, power, and cost.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard	Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John McHale	FPGAs enable signal processing Field-programmable gate arrays are becoming the choice of systems designers over their longtime preference of digital signal processing hardware.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010	Core i7 Products Intel i7-based computer boards for military, industrial, and telecom applications introduced by Advantech... Rugged 6U VME and CompactPCI computer boards based on Intel Core i7 processor introduced by GE...etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Wemekamp	The sea change to serial-switch fabrics As battlefield communications become increasingly distributed and network-centric, a sea change has begun in the design of embedded computing systems for defense and aerospace applications
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John Keller	Supplier Base for VPX Embedded Computing Begins to Take Shape The market and supplier base for VPX and VPX-REDI single-board computers are emerging, as several companies are stepping forward to provide embedded computing that adheres to VITA-46 and VITA-48 standards.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	VPX is at the Right Place, at the Right Time, for Serious Market Growth in Embedded Systems It's been a long time in coming, but the market for VPX-based embedded computing is ready to take off.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 Tom Litrenta	Advances in radar processing Single-channel radar systems require many processors to keep up with today's demanding real time I/O requirements. Thus, multicore processors have become an extremely attractive alternative.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009	GE Fanuc VME Rugged Computer Boards Power Navy Q-70 Ship Computer Sensor Processing GE Fanuc will provide it's VME-7809 VMEbus single-board computer and NETernity RM921 Ethernet switches for the AN/UYQ-70 rugged computer system with rugged display.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006	Rack-mount digital-signal processors for ground and air radar These 8- and 21-slot digital signal processing (DSP) systems deliver as much performance as 480 billion floating-point operations per second (giga-FLOPS) in versions that support from 10 to 48 processors.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009	Products ACT/Technico offers Gigabit Ethernet switches... Adimec offers 2-megapixel camera for unmanned vehicle applications... Aitech introduces Core 2 Duo-based single-board computer for use aboard UAVs... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008	Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005	VITA maps out future path for VMEbus technology Today, VITA's mission includes not only promoting VMEbus, but also promoting the very concept of open technology as embodied in the many standards currently under development within the VITA Standards Organization.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008	GE Fanuc Introduces 6U VXS Quad 8641/8641d Multicomputer The DSP220 has already been selected for several major international military programs, company officials say.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005	CompactPCI Showing up More and More in Military Designs An interview with the president and chairman of an industry consortium that develops open computer standards for industrial control, instrumentation, military, and communications applications on the growth of the military electronics industry.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Courtney E. Howard	A Voracious Need for Vectronics Military end users have an increasing demand for computing and networking performance in packages that are ever smaller, lighter, and more power efficient
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	6U VME Computer Boards Based on Freescale QorIQ P4080 Microprocessor Introduced by Curtiss-Wright The computer board provides as many as eight Power Architecture processor cores and data-path acceleration logic, as well as network and peripheral bus interfaces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	New Products Universal avionics digital interface... VME card for motor drive power control... VME64 bus-to-bus adapters.. Add-on network-management software for the TCP/IP stack... Self-clinching panel fasteners... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale	Lockheed Martin Selects Embedded Computers From GE Fanuc for Air-Defense System Engineers from Lockheed Martin's Radar Systems selected commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics technology from GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008	GE Fanuc Offers XMC Mezzanine Card with Options for Three Xilinx FPGAs GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is introducing the XMCV5 mezzanine card with Xilinx Virtex-5 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology for ground-mobile, aircraft, and naval applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2007	GE Fanuc Embedded Announces PPC9A 6U VME Single-Board Computer At the heart of the PPC9A is Freescale's latest PowerPC processor, the dual-core 8641D operating at 1.3 GHz.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 Andrew Reddig	Serial FPDP sensor data link scales up to 20 gigabytes per second The ANSI/VITA 17.1-2003, or serial Front Panel Data Port, allows many applications to use an open standard but still fit within the severe space, weight, and power limitations typically found for imaging focal plane arrays, RF antennas, or other external sensors.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010	L-3 MAPPS Chooses Computer Boards From GE for Naval Electrical, Damage, and Machinery Control L-3 engineers will use the VME7667 to handle digital I/O systems, as well as manage data for graphic user interfaces (GUIs).
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Products Telepresence tactile feedback system... Actuators for unmanned-aerial-vehicle applications... Rugged COTS airborne computer with 3U CompactPCI cards... VME single-board embedded computer... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Aitech Introduces C108 Rugged 6U VME Single-Board Computer for New and Legacy Applications The C108 provides numerous I/O capabilities for military embedded applications such as mission management computers, heads-up display controllers, and radar and sonar processors.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	Show Products Product highlights for the avionics and military shows in San Diego, June 1-2, 2009.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Long	When High Performance Really Matters in Mil-Aero: A Comparison of ATCA and VPX Solutions ATCA systems are shipping in volume, while VPX is still overcoming interoperability issues.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Richard Kirk	Flexible I/O: Meeting the challenge of a standards-based market Increasing standardization, however, is taking place against a backdrop in which customers are ever-more demanding.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	FPGA companies will design supercomputer Over the next two years, the FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance, a group of technology companies and academics, will design and build an FPGA-based super computer capable of achieving processing speeds in excess of one trillion floating-point operations per second.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller	Trends in microprocessors: high-end military embedded applications are beginning a shift to Intel When it comes to military embedded computing, basically only two microprocessor manufacturers slug it out for the lion's share of the defense and aerospace embedded computer market -- Freescale Semiconductor Inc. in Austin, Texas, and Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010	General Dynamics Selects 3U VPX and XMC Cards From GE Intelligent Platforms GE Intelligent Platforms will provide compact embedded computing components for the U.S. Army M1A2 main battle tank.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 Bernard Pelon	Reconnecting with military program requirements for performance and interoperability There is a real risk that switched fabrics with standards-based physical layers will reestablish the traditional vendor lock that is part of too many of today's commercial off-the-shelf solutions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller	Intel i7 microprocessor set to produce tectonic shift in industry The military embedded computer industry has been turning backflips since last month amidst the excitement surrounding the 7 Jan. introduction by microprocessor giant Intel Corp. of the latest versions of its Core i7, i5, and i3 processors at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Advanced Vetronics: Hit the Ground Running Industry heeds the warfighter's call for innovative, responsive, and reliable electronics in combat vehicles on the ground.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008	GE Fanuc Introduces Intel Quad-Core LV Xeon V7812 6U VME Single-Board Computer The CPU boards use the newly-announced Intel 5100 MCH (memory controller hub) chipset, as well as AMD's Unified Shader Architecture for advanced vertex and pixel processing in embedded graphics applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John Keller	Small Size Helps 3U CompactPCI Single-Board Computers Find Niche in Avionics, Other Military Applications The reasons for the migration to 3U CompactPCI involve the 3U board's relatively small size and weight, its inherent ruggedness, and its advantages in cooling
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	New Products From the Show New products announced at the 2004 Military & Aeropspace Electronics Show: 3U conduction-cooled CompactPCI single-board computer... Multimedia PMC graphics board... IEEE-1394a&b/FireWire VME board... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010	Themis Introduces CoolShell High-Performance Rugged Blade Server CoolShell rugged server technology combines high-performance, single-board computer and graphics processor in a blade server configuration for rugged systems applications in demanding environments
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008	Pentek Offers VME/VXS Board With PowerPC, FPGA, and Gigabit Ethernet Pentek is releasing its Model 4207 high-performance digital signal processing and data-acquisition system with Freescale's MPC8641D dual-core PowerPC AltiVec processor and a Xilinx Virtex-4 FX series field-programmable gate array.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John Keller	BittWare claims new architecture puts DSP vs. FPGA debate to rest Based around the Altera Stratix II GX field programmable gate array, the conduction-cooled board is optimized for high-end, multiprocessing applications while enabling flexibility for future adaptability.